Admiral Lazarev

The Admiral Lazarev (formerly known as the Frunze until 1992) is one of the four Kirov-class battle cruiser (heavy nuclear guided missile cruisers) that were built by the Soviet Navy in the 1970s. The ship was commissioned into the Soviet Pacific Fleet in 1984 and visited ports in Angola, Vietnam, and elsewhere. After the collapse of the USSR it was placed in reserve status until it could be modernized. In 1999, the funds to refit the Admiral Lazarev were unavailable, and in 2004–2005 its nuclear fuel was unloaded. Since the 2010s the Russian Navy has shown interest in returning all of its four Kirov-class battle cruisers into active service but the Admiral Lazarev is said by some military sources to be beyond repair. In 2014 it was painted to extent its preservation time in the reserve fleet.